stonecrandall Chapter 724
Chapter 724
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On May 2, when the Japanese were still shivering in the foggy city, the Celestial Empire in the Far East was also facing a huge problem: how to retreat safely!
“Please come this way, General Seckt. The president and the generals are waiting for you!”
President Jiang’s secretary Chen Bulei smiled and led the way in front while introducing the background of this meeting and the identities of the participants to Seckt, so that he could have a general idea in his mind before the meeting.
Seckt nodded slightly and remembered Chen Bulei’s words.
Although he didn’t like such meetings very much, it was very risky to recall important generals on the front line at a critical moment in the battle and then hold a meeting in the rear. If the enemy launched a large-scale attack on them at this time, the front line without a general to guard it might be in big trouble!
However, the current situation has reached the point where a decision must be made. It involves the retreat of millions of troops. This is not a decision that anyone can make. If it is not discussed in advance, the result may be that each fights on its own, resulting in a lack of cooperation between each other, and eventually turning into a disaster!
So although Seckt didn’t like this kind of meeting in his heart, he had to attend this meeting.
“General Seckt has arrived!”
As soon as he entered the meeting room, a guard read out his name loudly and informed everyone in the meeting room of his arrival.
With a swish, almost all the Chinese generals in uniform, including President Jiang, stood up and saluted him the moment Seckt walked into the meeting room.
Seckt was stunned for a moment, glanced at President Jiang, and found that the latter had a slight smile on his face. Obviously, this was President Jiang’s doing.
The Chinese seemed to prefer to use such a pomp to show their courtesy and attention. This kind of thing is still relatively rare in Europe, but Seckt was quite happy with it. After all, being respected by others is a pretty good feeling. Who wouldn’t like it?
However, Seckt didn’t know in his heart that the Chinese respected him, not just for Because of himself, and also includes respect for Hans.
Hans is a world superpower, their status is incomparable to the Celestial Empire at this time, and the worship of the strong is human nature, anyone will respect the strong, and when Seckt was a general in the Celestial Empire, his status was not low, and it could even be said that he was the second person in Hans’ military.
With such an experience, even if he went to the Celestial Empire as a private person, he would still be treated with courtesy, not to mention that now he is commissioned by President Hans, with a large group of officers, and a large amount of military supplies and assistance!
Hans’ status, Seckt’s qualifications and Hans’ generous assistance have won them great favor from the Celestial Empire. In order to repay Hans’ generous assistance, Principal Jiang very much entertained Seckt and Hans’ officers. Try to provide them with the best treatment to facilitate their work in the Celestial Empire.
The Celestial Chinese are extremely simple and honest. If someone respects me one foot, I will respect them ten feet!
Since the Opium War, the Western powers have always treated them wantonly by suppressing and bullying them, and never treated them normally.
But Hans did not bully them like other powers. The attitude of the new Third Reich towards the Celestial Empire was completely different from that of other countries!
There is no harm without comparison. As long as there is a comparison between the Third Reich and other Western powers, the gap will immediately appear. Therefore, the Celestial Chinese people can naturally feel Hans’s friendship with them, and for those who are friendly to them, the Celestial Chinese people have always repaid a drop of water with a spring of water. They will never forget the kindness of international friends!
What’s more, Hans is not a famous person.
The Chinese people are not a small country with little voice and very weak strength, but a powerful superpower.
This makes the Chinese people have a deeper feeling for Hans.
After all, it is powerful and friendly.
It not only does not bully itself, but also sincerely provides help to itself and helps itself to uphold justice.
How many people can not love such a country? As the president of the Celestial Empire, Principal Jiang actually has another consideration in his mind.
That is to maintain the friendly relations between the two countries. In this way, the Celestial Empire may gain a powerful international ally!
After missing two industrial revolutions, the Celestial Empire has lagged behind the world for too long, which has led to their strength being greatly weakened. The former world’s number one power may not even be ranked in the top ten in the world at this time. They can’t even beat their former student, the foot basin!
The strength of the foot basin is relatively weak among the international powers. The other powers have been industrialized for a longer time than the foot basin, and their industrial strength is stronger than the foot basin. A foot basin can press the Celestial Empire to the ground and beat it. If other powers want to invade the Celestial Empire, the Celestial Empire will have no room for resistance.
Therefore, for the Celestial Empire, when its own strength was extremely weak and it had almost no strength to fight against the powers alone, it was the best way for them to avoid being bullied by other countries to find a powerful country to ally with, or simply to surrender to the other side and seek the other side’s protection!
Since the Opium War in 1840, the Celestial Empire has been invaded by foreign enemies countless times. This invasion has frightened the Celestial Empire and destroyed their spirit. The Celestial Empire began to fall into self-doubt as early as after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, doubting whether their race was not good enough, doubting whether their culture was not good enough…
If it were not for these reasons, why couldn’t they not only beat the powers, but even the foot basin?
This self-denial became more and more intense in the Celestial Empire, causing the Celestial Empire to seriously lack self-confidence.
It was not until the Northeast Army was defeated in the Northeast region by itself against the invasion of the entire foot basin for a year that the self-confidence of the Celestial Empire was slightly restored.
However, at this moment, their entire country and the entire nation still lacked self-confidence and confidence in defeating foreign invasions.
If they could not find a strong ally outside who could give them confidence and hope, I am afraid that the Celestial Empire would continue to be pessimistic about the war, which would obviously be very unfavorable for the next war!
Historically
, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the main reason why there were so many traitors in the Celestial Empire was that these people felt that the Celestial Empire had no chance of winning against the foot basin.
Since they could not win, they would surrender sooner or later.
It was better to surrender early than late, and they could sell for a good price if they surrendered early.
Therefore, a large number of Celestial Empire people rushed to become traitors, and even big traitors like Wang Jingwei appeared!
If the Celestial Empire could correctly recognize their own strength and restore their self-confidence, there would definitely not be so many traitors!
However, this is easier said than done. The Celestial Empire is now poor and has nothing. It has also experienced such a long period of warlords fighting each other. How can it be easy to restore the confidence of the people?
Therefore, the simplest way is to find an ally with super strength and directly cling to the ally’s thigh.
In this way, even if the people of the Celestial Empire do not believe in their own strength, they will believe in the strength of the ally!
As long as they see the hope of winning the war, they will not surrender easily.
In that case, the situation like Lin’an City, where the defenders saw the Japanese army and directly opened the city to surrender, will not easily occur!